The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-04-11

not indispensable. We may get too
much of good thing. Good or
otherwise, many of us think that ifthe
whole boiling would evaporate our
happiness would remain singularly
unimpaired. 1t would be blessed
good thing if they were excluded,
flesh and bones, from the next elec-
ton. No doubt can remain in any
persons mind, when rejecting upon
the serious state of the country, that
those men occupy highly criminal
position. Instead of being elected
TO do more mischief, it would be far
more in consonance with the princi-
Piles of strict justice if they we're
sent to trial before the Supreme
Court for malicious libel upon legis-
lation.
The course of government for
several years past has been a painful
burlesque upon law-making, diplo-
macy, and public business, and it
has become clearly apparent to us
all that this silly experiment must
be terminated. 1t is all very well
to play at soldiers or have game at
pnf ~ 1apf
too long. A few ignorant fellows
picked up from the gutter and decor
ated with brumagens from Cheap
John slop-shop, may. serve to repre-
sent Members and Ministers for a
few days of liberal buffoonery; but
the reign of tomfoolery has con-
tinued long enough. 1t was very
good fun for q while, like the Kapio-
lani Bath House farce. The planters,
the tradespeople, and everybody
else enjoyed it amazingly-almost
split their sides with laughter. In
fact, it has been perfect FOOLS
holiday; but we must now return to
business. Either that, or enquire
for the easiest means of reaching
some more fortunate locality.
But the buffoonery has not been all
played by the Legislature. The
Executive has taken q prominent
part. Indeed, the latter has con-
Quoted the stage management. To
be sure, special Importance attaches
to the Legislature because it holds
the purse strings, and can, if it will,
formulate and pass sound measures,
and insist upon their being adopted
and carried out, or withhold sup
plies. An intelligent, honest, and
independent Legislature would soon
remedy the defects of the Executive.
Assuming that such a Legislature
can be had, and that the people who
have the choice of their own repre-
sentatives are prepared to make up
the next Assembly of this class of
material, all is plain and easy.
The new set will just have to take
the open platform and 60 in for
everything that is diametrically oppo-
sed to all that has been done by their
predecessors, and they cannot go
wrong. No more definite policy
than this is needed. Here we have
the whole business jammed into a
nutshell. A policy, or principles,
or intentions other than this should
not be imposed upon them until the
first task is accomplished. What
ever the last Parliament and all the
Administrations of the past four
years have enacted or advocated,
sweep away; knock it on the head,
and that must be right. Just like
boarding SLAYER, every scoundrel
you see on deck is a slave-hunter,
and should have toko-for-yam. Sc
in our future legislation, capsize all
that is behind, and pitch the Legis.
tors and the Ministers into the har-
Dor. Then the way for better
state of things will be open. These
prelimaries being settled, they can
begin upon the fundamental princi-
piles of the Constitution, and knock
that properly into shape, first re-
scinding all that ambiguous rubbish
incorporated into it by designing
politicians, and then make it i'm
possible for positions of honor and
trust to be held by persons whose
habits and education render them
particularly unsuitable.
Finding our allotted space very
nearly filled, and pausing for a
moments reflection, it,,occurs TO us
that we may have been o little too
sweeping. Perhaps it would be
unwise, in the present state of So